Images of my installation in The Wanderers. 

Curated by Polly Shindler and Will Hutnick.

Hello

Pregnant Mirror

Recent Work

Italy

My Parents

Margaret's Party

Italy                               Party 

Football

Faded                              Baby21

Faded

Six Pack

There's No Place Like Home

Back in the Good ol' Days

Jerk

Sweet Talker

Sugar

25 ARTISTS

25 Artists

25 Artists

“We do not want his mind to be like a badly blown glass, that distorts what we see through it, but like a glass of sweet and strange color that gives new tones to what we see through it; and a glass of rare strength and clearness too, to let us see more than we could see ourselves.” —John Ruskin

This show of emerging and established artists presents a challenge for the viewer. 25 artists living and working in New York offered us a glimpse into their studios. Distilled through their process and life’s experience they’ve reached a certain sweet and strange color of clarity. Presented here is each artist’s refracted vision; seen together in this way we hope it will allow us all to see more than we could see ourselves.

Joe Ballweg

Yevgenia Baras

Polina Barskaya

Trudy Benson

Andrea Bergart

Ryan Cobourn

Stephen Eakin

Heather Garland

Matt Hassell

Yasamin Keshktar

Ben La Rocco

Sangram Majumdar

Jesse Patrick Martin

Cristina de Miguel

Rebecca Morgan

Jodie Niss

Linnea Paskow

Lucia Pedi

Michelle Rawlings

Jason Reyen

Bryan Rogers

Mark Sengbusch

Kris Scheifele

Jason Stopa  

Ian Swanson

Opening Reception

Friday April 12 6:00-9:00

Open Saturdays 1-6pm and Sundays by appointment.
 

Suite 217

56 Bogart Street

Brooklyn, NY 11206

Please contact Polina Barskaya or Heather Garland for more information

barskaya.polina@gmail.com

heatherelizabethgarland@gmail.com

http://suite217.tumblr.com

 

All I Want is Everything is a solo show of Heather Garland's recent work.

The show will be up from October 14th- November 16th with a reception for the artist on Friday October 19th. from 6-8pm

Kent Place Gallery@

Kent Place School
42 Norwood Avenue
Summit, NJ 07902-0308

The Gallery is open from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Monday through Friday or by appointment with Director Ken Weathersby. For more information, please call (908) 273-0900, ext. 208.

Garland’s installation includes lush paintings, selected found and reworked objects, and drawn shapes and written words that seem to signal private emotion.

Her artistic vocabulary is omnivorous. It seems engagingly direct, but also holds layers of complexity. Garland has said, “My work is not straightforward. Stacking objects, images and materials I’ve amassed over the years and placing them into arrangements is part of my process. Everything in the studio has to get really messy, dirty, and connected in ideas, color and materials… I like the stark contrast of warm ebullient things such as ribbons, confetti or Christmas lights against concrete...” Her subject matter includes dolls and toys, along with a large accumulation of other found materials. “These are objects that recall childhood, but not mine. I’m using them as vehicles to communicate feelings in my adult female life.”

Garland’s painting is a robust and open-ended artistic statement. Her use of images and objects from childhood, including dolls and fictional entities like Godzilla, or Barbie, along with her recourse to emphatically inscribed rows of hearts or simply-drawn flowers, represent an artist adopting a radical and laudably vulnerable stance. She refuses to deal in an artistic language that is strictly "serious" and nominally grown up, and in that regard she risks being dismissed by the superficial viewer. By refusing to separate these terms out, and moving ahead with an ambitious intent that’s broad, inclusive and doesn’t quarantine "high" subject matter and style from "low", she creates a space to talk about all kinds of contradictions of real experience. The paintings seem to be about pleasure, pain, memory of childhood, and living with present, adult complication and ambiguity. Furthermore, she is just a talented painter. Her marks, color choices and general touch carry weight and conviction.
--Ken Weathersby

 Install shots from show: 

Scroll Down for Images! Hope to see you all at GO BROOKLYN this weekend September 8-9 11-7pm both days.

236-250 Greenpoint Avenue
Brooklyn, NY 11222
4th floor

summer poems

transit

smells like sausage on the train

it's hot.

it doesn't matter.

season

drunk kids play loud music

winter windows shut in.

summer dresses

everyone's back on the street.

decision

Maybe it's time I decide to be a good woman

I've had a hard time being a good girl.

home

time travel forward

Texas

California 

Michigan

New York

Sorry Indiana, Ohio.

you didn't make the list. 

friend

people that always have your back

no matter how irrational

how late

how far

how inappropriate

that's love.

want

Possession is a crime.

fishing for something to sink my teeth in

not sure if it's to eat or keep or love.

tenderness

no matter what

special place in the heart.

ART SHOW

BRYAN ROGERS

HEATHER ELIZABETH GARLAND

JESSE PATRICK MARTIN

MATTHEW HASSELL

ARTISTS RECEPTION: DEC 22 6-8pm

Show open NOW--BEGINNING OF JANUARY @Spazio 522, 526 W.26th st.

Hours: Mondays and Wednesdays 11am--5pm and Saturdays by appointment.

(212) 929-1981

http://rogersbryan.blogspot.com/
http://heatherelizabethgarland.blogspot.com/
http://jessepatrickmartin.blogspot.com/
http://www.matthewhassell.com/